On Bios & Lineages

The editor of an anthology, in which I am proud to have my poems included, asked me to send some information for the headnote about my grandparents and parents. It made me well up—this invitation to think about them in in the context of my own writing. It was kind of amazing to pull their history into the threads of my own story in this way. How often do we get to publicly honor our lineages in our official bios?